Mifflin County Board of Commissioners: the VA exempt-status exonerations, the Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day proclamation and the Veterans Affairs Clerk

The board. Kevin P. Kodish, Noah Wise and Robert Postal; 20 North Wayne Street, Lewistown, PA 17044, 717-248-6733, fax 717-248-3695, weekdays 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM; the commissioners' statutory duties "encompass registration and elections, assessment of persons and property, human services, veterans' affairs, appointment of county budgets, assessment of property, levying of taxes, borrowing of funds for construction of capital projects, and any other task that they incur". The Meetings and More page posts the minutes by year; the window's 29 files (April 2025 through August 2026, born-digital) were downloaded and read whole. The veteran items: - The exoneration lists. Meeting after meeting approves the tax exoneration lists parcel by parcel: "Parcel No. 05,11-0802 located in Lewistown Borough - $395.83 (Michael Snook) - The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved exempt status"; "Parcel No. 16,02-0614F located in Derry Township - $1,084.98 (Shane Moore) - The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved exempt status"; "Parcel No. 17,21-0400 located in Granville Township - $328.02 (Debra & Larry Collins) - The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved exempt status"; "Parcel No. 07,16-0119 located Lewistown Borough - $965.12 - The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved exempt status"; "Parcel No. 07,18-0100M located Lewistown Borough - $689.15 - The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved exempt status"; and one approval recorded the other way: "Parcel No. 16,40-0003 located in Derry Township - Parcel approved for exempt status by the PA Department of Veteran's Affairs - $366.65 (2026)". One tax-claim item turns on the exemption: "Parcel No. 15,08-0801 - -,000 - property received a Veterans exemption". - March 9, 2026 (the salary board): "Commissioner Postal stated the proposed salary for the Veterans Affairs Officer is to be $56,100.00 annually. Treasurer Griffith made a motion to approve the $56,100.00 salary. Commissioner Wise seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously." - March 19, 2026: "Proclamation - Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day March 29" - "NOW, THEREFORE, the Mifflin County Board of Commissioners hereby proclaim March 29th as: WELCOME HOME VIETNAM VETERANS DAY in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and urge all residents to honor and thank our Vietnam Veterans for their service, courage, and devotion to our country. WELCOME HOME. Adopted this 19th day of March, 2026." The minutes record: "Veterans Affairs Director James Peters expressed his appreciation to the Commissioners for issuing the Proclamation recognizing and bringing awareness to Vietnam War Veterans." The board's earlier meeting lists also carry the "Monthly Veterans Meeting" and the "Veterans Association Monthly Meeting" among the commissioners' schedules, and "Veterans" among the Internal offices of the county's own committee rounds. - The clerk line: January 2026 minutes "Rescind the transfer of Sue Zimmerman from Children and Youth Fiscal Clerk to Tax Services / Voter / Veterans Clerk effective January 26, 2026"; February 2026 minutes "Hiring of Miranda Foltz for Tax Services / Voter / Veterans Clerk effective February 17, 2026"; and the salary-board item "Abolish the Tax Services Clerk position and create the Tax Services / Elections / Voter Registration / Veterans Affairs Clerk position - paygrade 5". June 2026 minutes: "Hiring of James Conway for Veterans Affairs Officer effective June 22, 2026", the account noting the county was "re-hiring his predecessor James Conway to replace him as the new Director of Veteran Affairs". - The suicide-prevention proclamation: "Mr. Scott Specht from Together with Veterans HMJ stated they have partnered with Healing Connections to offer education through classes and events to get information out about all the sources of support that are available in the community. Mr. Specht noted that Veterans are affected at a higher rate than any other demographic. Anyone who wishes to help or get involved in the organization or just wants information can find them on Instagram and Facebook under Together with Veterans HMJ." No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed; the exonerations carry out the state exemption the county VA and the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs approve, and the rest is the county's own staffing and proclamations.